stauffer



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

M. T. STAUPPER &'J. L. TOLSON.

GATE.

N0. 566,482. Patented Aug. 26, 1896.

l M5 SE20 J Witnesses. Inventors Attorney.

(N0 Modl.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

M. T. STAUPFER & J. LfTOLSON.

GATE.

No. 566,482. Patented Aug. 25, 1896.

WA VIII W ltnesses Attorney;

NITEDS STATES PATENT O FFICE.

MARION T. STAUFFER AND JACOB L. TOLSON, OF BARRY, ILLINOIS;

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 566,482, dated August25, 1896.

Application filed May 9, 1896- Serial No. 590,895. (No model.)

such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

Our invention has relation to portable temporary transferable gates forwire fences; and the object is to provide a gate for wire fences, eithertemporary or permanent, and, if temporary, when the occasion for its usehas ceased the gate may be transferred to another point; and to theseends the novelty consists in the construction, combination, andarrangement of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described,and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings the same figures of reference indicate thesame parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a line of wire fence, one of thepanels thereof being converted into a temporary gate by means of ourinvention. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the gate open. Fig. 3 is anend view of the front gate-post. Fig. 1 is atop plan view of the fenceand gate, and Fig. 5 is a crosssection of the Windlass-shaft.

When it is desired to locate a temporary gate at any section of a lineof wire fencing, the wire is out next a post, as at 2, and an adjustableshoe 3 is clamped about midway of the height of the post. This shoeconsists of a base-piece 4, and is provided with integral lateral arms 77 and '7 7', in which are secured the side brackets 8 8 by a bolt 9,passing through alined holes in the brackets in front of the post, and abolt 10, passing through similar alined holes 11 in said brackets backof the post. These two bolts 9 10 clamp the brackets and shoe firmly tothe post, the lateral arms 7 7 on the shoe being of sufficient length totake in posts of the largest size, and the series of holes 11 admit ofthe adjustment of the shoe to the breadth of the post.

12 is a Windlass-shaft j ournaled in the front ends of the side brackets8 8. It is pro vided with a central ratchet portion 13, and in the sameplane therewith is a gravity-pawl 14, hinged by its cars 15 15 to a pairof lugs 16 16, cast on the shoe 3. This shaft projects on each side ofthe post 2, and each end is provided with a removable handle 17.

18 is a flexible wire, cord, or chain, one end of which is permanentlyfastened to an eye 19 on the shaft, and the other end of said chain isprovided with a hook 20, by means of which that end of the chain isdetachably secured to the eye 19 on said shaft.

21 22 are two bars of about the height of the fence, and they lie oneach side of the fence-wires, which are firmly clamped between them bybolts 23, and these bars are preferably secured in place before thefencewires are cut to make the gate. One end of the chain 18 is passedaround the bars and secured to the eye 19'. The Windlass-shaft 12 maythen be rotated to draw the bars toward it and thus tighten the wiresforming the gate-panel.

WVhen it is desired to open the gate, the pawl is first raised torelease the shaft 12, which unwinds the chain and releases the bars 2122, which are then swung around the post 2' as a pivot, carrying thewires composing the panel with them; One of the bars 21 is provided witha staple 24:, to which is secured a pointed bar 25, which may be stuckin the ground to support the bars and panel in a vertical position. Thisleaves a clear passage or gateway between the posts 2 and 2.

When it is desired 'to close the gate, the bars 21 22 are carried aroundto their former position, the end of the chain passed around them andits end connected to the eye 19, and the handle on either side of thepost rotated to wind the chain on the shaft 12. This draws the wirescomposing the gate-panel perfectly tight, and the pawl on the shoe holdsthe shaft-chain, bars, and gate-panel securely in position.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new anduseful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. The shoe 3, comprising base-piece 1, having integral lateral arms 7 7and 7 7, the brackets 8 S, the bolts 9 10 and pawl 14, in combinationwith the shaft 12 formed with the integral ratchet 13, and the removablehandles 17, substantially as shown and described.

2. The post 2, the shoe 3 removably secured to said post and comprisingthe base-piece 4, having integral arms 7 7 and 7 7, pawl 14:, thebrackets 8 8, the bolts 9 and 10, the shaft 12 formed with the integralratchet 13 journaled in said shoe and provided with the removablehandles 17 and chain 18, in combination with the post 2, the attachedfencewires, the bars 21 22 and the pointed bar 25, pivoted to the bar 21by a staple 24L, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof We hereunto affiX our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

MARION T. STAUFFER. JACOB L. TOLSON. WVitnesses:

E. D. PENNER, A. O. HALL.

